"If humans can move between lots of different places and set up societies in all of them, none of them will end up governed better than if we just have a computer blindly do it?"

"Some of them might but it would probably take a while. The ways humans can wind up in charge of stuff is not well correlated with the ways they can be good at it unless they are, like, Timothy. The computer wouldn't be to actually govern so much as to make sure people didn't get bothered by anyone they didn't want to meet though."

"We can't do that with computers. I can ask Cam when he gets back if Revelation can - wouldn't it sort of involve everyone being in prison all of the time -"

"I know Elves are sensitive about that but automatic doors making sure certain pairs of people are never in the same room can't qualify, can it?"

"The entire world consisting of automatic doors that will sometimes close such that you can't go into a space that certain other people are in? Yeah, that'd qualify."

"I mean, it's a whole planet. There could be huge amounts of space per space."

"Which would help, but arbitrarily losing access to places you'd planned to go and all of the people who are on the other side of them is more than bad enough to make it a real problem even if it's a big prison. Plus I'm not sure it'd hold up against daeva, and the first thing I'd do if there were a giant wall between me and half my people for some reason is ask a fairy to make that cease to be the case."

"Yeah, daeva break it. Daeva could make any enforcement of anything very hard."

"And these populations'll be larger and larger percent daeva if we tell them that that's where their dead are going."

"If they're all daeva that limits how much damage they can do to each other but if it's only some..."

"I guess I could just fork an octillion times and set up good governments everywhere."

"...you could..."

"It's not very appealing but leaving worlds to flounder after having raised the stakes for them is also not very appealing."

"Maybe we'll think of something else."

"Or someone'll walk in with absurdly powerful magic." He glances hopefully at the door. No one walks in with absurdly powerful magic.

"Maybe they can save it for after my birthday, I think I'm subjectively fourteen sometime this week."

"Ooooh. Is a party planned?"

"If you wanna call it that?"

"I have no idea how humans celebrate birthdays, really."

"I was going to get Cam to set up something nice whenever he gets here and invite people but it seems generous to say it's a plan."

"I am sure it'll be lovely."

"Thanks."

And back to work.

Cam is synced only to part of the bar. People not loitering near the circle need not experience the full wait.

That's good; they'd miss him.